Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a whiskey bottle sailed by his head, Bandleader Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who recently was floored by Dancer George White, cut short his band music, stepped out onto a Toronto dance floor, strode up to a dancer whom he suspected as the bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...
...Templeton, which had a first-round bye. It includes three of the four players who beat England at Hurlingham in June-Winston Guest at Back, Stewart Iglehart at No. 3, Michael Phipps at No. 1. The only change-James Mills, onetime Yale captain, for Eric Pedley- should not greatly upset the combination...
...have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately he took up his abode in a fine hotel in Washington and he got to eating caviar, cav-eh-ah. It ain't a thing in the world but Russian catfish eggs, and it upset him and disordered him. What is the cure? . . . Take him across our specked and checkered aprons and give him a first class political spanking and presently he will be all right, sitting up and taking his milk as usual...
...angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology to upset which he thought would be disastrous. Therefore he removed the testes and the clitoris, tried to restore female features by administrations of female hormone. This medication was partly successful...